Autori
Pelloni, Alessandra
Waldamann, Robert

Titolo
Can waste improve welfare?
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 1997 - Fascicolo: 12 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 23

In endogenous growth models with a capital spillover, the market outcome is not Pareto efficient since agents ignore the positive externalities caused by investment. This makes it natural to conclude that taxes on investment or subsidies to consumption will impose first order welfare costs. In fact this is not true in a very simple model of endogenous growth with an infinite lived representative consumer who supplies labour elasti-cally. We present such a model in which, for all parameter values, either a small tax on capital income whose proceeds are thrown away causes increased welfare, or a small marginal subsidy to consumption causes increased welfare.We also show that for a broad range of parameters values, a lump sum tax whose proceeds are also thrown away will increase growth and welfare.



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